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    This Alien Sympathy: Project Black Book, #1
    This Alien Sympathy: Project Black Book, #1
    This Alien Sympathy: Project Black Book, #1
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    This Alien Sympathy: Project Black Book, #1

    By Shannon Eichorn

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    Setira lost her family in a body-snatching raid for her faceless enemies. When she meets a body-snatching alien with a familiar face, she's ready to take on the galaxy...with a little unexpected help.

    This short story takes place before the upcoming novel Rights of Use.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAstra Invicta LLC
    Release dateMar 19, 2018
    ISBN9781386427988
    This Alien Sympathy: Project Black Book, #1
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    Shannon Eichorn

    Shannon Eichorn is a scifi writer and aerospace engineer from Cleveland, Ohio.

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      This Alien Sympathy - Shannon Eichorn

      This Alien Sympathy

      A Project Black Book Story

      ––––––––

      by

      Shannon Eichorn

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      C:\Users\shannon\AppData\Local\Temp\hheboocdmappmjko.png

      Astra Invicta LLC

      2018

      Copyright © 2018 Shannon Eichorn

      All rights reserved.

      Electronic Edition 2018

      Astra Invicta LLC, Ohio USA

      AstraInvicta.com

      Cover Art by Abigail Delk

      Author’s Note

      The aliens in Project Black Book are polyglots who use base 8 math. As such, readers may be mindful that the subscripts on numbers are intentional to indicate why the math may not add up in base 10. Readers may also note the common spacecraft is named in Nahuatl, where the letter x is pronounced like sh in English.

      Welcome to Project Black Book.

      CHAPTER ONE

      So much for home

      Setira didn’t see who took her to the clinic. She didn’t notice when water started pumping into her body. She awoke to her mother’s face.

      Setira? A warm, wrinkled hand squeezed hers.

      She blinked until the image focused. She knew the voice as well as the face, but no one ever came back from retirement. Ma?

      The wrinkled hand brushed over her hair. You’re going to be all right. What did you do? Stop drinking?

      You were gone. And Starlight and the baby. Why didn’t you come visit to see the baby?

      Her mother’s brow creased. Of course I saw the baby, Setira. I delivered him. Glancing at something behind her, she let go of Setira’s hand and walked away, her white doctor’s robes swishing around her legs.

      Doctor’s robes? Her mother wasn’t a doctor. And Doctor Mila delivered the baby.

      Setira rubbed her burning eyes and looked again.

      There stood the doctor, taking in the medical screens, finger tracing the details the way Doctor Mila had throughout Setira’s pregnancy, the way Doctor Mila had when Setira had come to the clinic as

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